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Friday, May 17th, 2024
the Seventh Week after Easter
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Spontaneity'

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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher (1821-  )
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
Chuck Barris, American Producer (1929-  )
The way that I live my life is on spontaneity.
Melanie Brown, English Musician (1975-  )
Spontaneity has its time and its place.
Arthur Frank Burns, Ukrainian Economist (1904-1987)
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau, French Director (1889-1963)
I like Vegas for its spontaneity.
Tony Curtis, American Actor (1925-2010)
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
Larry David, American Actor (1947-  )
I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, German Musician (1925-  )
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.
Hermann Ebbinghaus, German Psychologist (1850-1909)
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.
Terence Fisher, British Director (1904-1980)
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
Germaine Greer, Australian Activist (1939-  )
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Charlie Haden, American Musician (1937-  )
The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
Jan Hammer, Musician (1948-  )
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
Donal Henahan, -
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
Simon Hoggart, British Journalist (1946-  )
Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys, American Musician (1981-  )
When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect (1944-  )
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May, American Psychologist (1909-1994)
Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
John McLaughlin, English Musician (1942-  )
Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people.
Austin Peck, American Actor (1971-  )
 
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